February 10, 2012
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Monday, November 30, 2009Andruw Jones makes smart choice in choosing White SoxThe White Sox signed Andruw Jones to a one-year contract worth $500,000 last week. While the White Sox aren't done making moves, don't be surprised to see Jones put together over 300 at-bats. Click for more... A THT Annual reviewSteve Lombardi of Was Watching posted a review of the THT Annual. Steve has read and reviewed the THT Annual for several years, and he said that "this year’s edition is just as good, if not better, than the editions from the previous four years." This is the first online review of the book I've read. We're always looking for feedback regarding the Annual—in fact, we made some changes to this year's book based on feedback from Steve and other reviewers last year. If you have a comment, such as a favorite (or least favorite) article or whether you like the stats or not, please leave it below. Medium and short-time pitch memoryMaybe you noticed that my last article, "Medium and hort-term pitching memory," has been removed from the site. While trying to elaborate an answer to one of the comments, I discovered an error in my code that generated the results that were published. After re-running the correct code, different conclusions came up; which I will probably summarize them in a new article. The more statistically inclined are surely thinking "Why, were the strong correlations appearing in the article caused by a wrong code? What are the chances?" Well, those correlations describe another phenomenon that I'm tryng to understand; if something interesting comes up I'll let you know. (That reminds me of another Italian, that five centuries ago was trying to reach India and discovered a new land—like him, I was fully convinced I was in India). I also just wanted to make clear that while in the article I thanked Dave Studeman for peer reviewing it, his feedback was on the writing part, not on the analysis. Thus he has absolutely nothing to do with my mistake (nor he was in a position to discover it). I apologize for the inconvenience. Sunday, November 29, 2009Ichiro’s Speed Compared to Right FieldersAnother month, another discussion on the Hall of Fame worthiness of Ichiro Suzuki on Baseballthinkfactory. I skimmed through and didn't see much said that hasn't been said before, though this quote by Colin Wyers made me think: Because, let's be honest - the question of if Ichiro belongs in the HoF is basically a question of how good his defense is. The opinion's on Ichiro's greatness generally fall into these categories: 1. He gets 200 hits per year, so he's the greatest hitter ever. I don't understand the alphabet soup stats you mention. 2. Ichiro gets a lot of singles, but he's not really a great hitter. His OPS+ is OK but well below the level of greatness for a corner outfielder. His career OPS+ is the same as Ken Griffey Sr, and worse than Shawn Green's 3. He's a good, but not great hitter, but rises to the level of the game's greats when you consider his defense, throwing, baserunning, and avoiding the double play. The little things in his case really add up. Click for more... Saturday, November 28, 2009Top baserunners of 2009This is a look at baserunning runs, excluding stolen base attempts. Here's the basic method:
That gives us our baserunning runs. Your leaders (and trailers) for 2009:
Your typical caveats apply - don't read too much into a one year sample. Remember that players at the extremes during any sample tend to regress to the mean as the sample increases, etc. The full list is available here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||